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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Recipes.

Recipes
ScALLorED ONIONS. Boil, and if large
cut into quarters. Put into a shallow
dish. cover with white sauce and but.
tered crumbs, and bake until the onions
are brown.
TRANSPARENT PuDDING.-Beat eight
eggs very light, add half pound OF
sugar, the same of fresh butter, melted,
and half nutmeg, grated; set this on
the stove, and keep stirring until it is
thick as buttered eggs; put puff paste
in pie-plate, and bake Ia, moderate
oven. This quantity yiii- msES,ssWo
pies.
ScoTcH Cookies. two cups Of
sugar with one of butter and five table
spoonfuls of milk, in which has been
dissolved one tablespoonful of soda.
Beat two eggs quite light and add them.
Mix two tablespoonfuls of cream of
tartar with half a pound of flour and a
teaspoonful Of powdered cinnamon. Mix
the whole together, adding more -four
from time to time to make a dough.
Roll thin and bake quickly.
Snow PuDDING.-Soak one-half box of
gelatine in little cold water, then add
one pint of boiling water, the juice of
one lemon, and two cups of sugar, and
let it cool Beat the whites of three eggs
to a stiff froth, add to the gelatine, and
beat together until quite light, put into
mold, and place on ice to harden.
Make custard Of the yolks of three eggs;
let it become perfectly cold, and when
the Jelly is turned from the mold pour
the custard around it and serve.
HAsHED MUTTON. = Minee an onion
and FRY it in butter to a brown color, add
a tablespoonful of flour, stir well, pour in
enough stock or broth to make the sauce,
with dash of vinegar, pepper, salt and
spices to taste. Let the sauce give boil,
then strain il, and when cold put in the
slices of meat, well trimmed of any out
side parts, and good allowance of
picked gherkins cut in slices Let the
whole get warm by gentle simmering,
and keep it hot till wanted for table.
WHITE SUMNER SQUAsH.-Cut three
summer squashes in quarters and put
them in boiling water slightly salted,
enough to cover them; boil gently for
forty-iiye minutes. After putting the
squashes in the water add one sprig OF
parsley, four pepper corns, two cloves,
and a minced onion. When the squashes
are cooked pass them through a sieve
and put them on the back of the range to
keep warm. Mix two teaspoonfuls of
-four in a little cold milk, add two cups
Of boiling milk, mix with the squash.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30
Another Wrecked Life.

First Omaha Youth-"Seems to me
Jinkin looks rather shabby. Has he lost
his positionln
Second Omaha Ycuth-"No, he is
making several thousand dollars year
right along"
'Well, well! CANDLES, supposed"
''Gambles! You couldn't hire Jinkin
to play cards"
Don't see how he can drink up so
much money"
HE don't drink"
''what under the canopy does he do,
thenf"
Poor fellow He has become an in
veterate eurphotonrapher. - Omaha
Herald.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30
The Langtry Coirure.

The Langtry is at present in California.
devoting herself to study, and one of
the newspaper gossips writes, to the
invention of new couture.
Imitation is the sincerest fattery. and
the Langtry has grown so accustomed to
this species Of adulation that she can't
live and thrive without it. 1t was she
who introduced last winters fashion of
huting the back and sides of the hair
after it had been arranged high on her
head. But she did not get .he credit CT
it, though it became universal and was
very becoming. When she returns she
will have some method of folding up
her chestnut locks that will be easy to
initiate, becoming and fashionable at
once. She herself has promised it, and
her entire mind is being bent toward
the fulfillmcnt of it. One thing about
Langtry's head-dress it is always difficult
TO initiate, and that is the exquisite
chestnut brown of her silky locks, char
acteristic English hair that forms the
most perfect foil to the pink and
white English skin. Some approach
to this shade can be obtained by
bathing the hair frequently in
lukewarm water, to which half n
teaspoonful Of hartshorn has been added.
1t gives the hair an auburn tinge, and
makes it very light and fluffy, but ruins
it in the long run, taking away all its
life and drying up the natural oil of the
scalp. The only hair dye that is known
that does not injure the hair is that used
by the Persian women-a weak solution
of henna- In Persia only one shade of
hair is known and that one artificial. No
matter what may be the color of a child's
hair-and there are even blondes there
sometimes-as soon as it obtains to a
convenient length it is dyed with henna
and kept dyed as long as she lives The
shade they desire to obtain is one that
naturally is as rare as it is beautiful.
The natural color which when in shadow
is absolutely dark, but when the suns
rays strike it all the salient points turn to
a reddish gold II is a color sometimes
seen in this country in children a year or
two old, and nothing can be more beau
tiful than these dark locks lit with this |
cleaning touch on the turn Of the curl.
on the fold of braid or coil of thick
twist of silken hair. In Persia it is
taken quite as a matter of course, and
many of the wives of the Ambassadors to |
Teheran have adopted the custom of dye
ing their hair the same way, as it suffers
no injury from the process.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30
THEN AND NOW.

when was young the girls were thrifty,
Their work went right ahead,
They MIXED the cows, and churned the butter
And learned to make good bread.
lis thirty years since me and ,Zekel
First started out together.
And now we've got right smart o money
Laid by for rainy weather.
We don't go much on bonds or coupons,
Or railroad stocks, and SIGH,
We ike the ring Of gold and silver,
1t makes one feel 50 rich.
But Ia! We've spent many dollar
Upon our only darter,
And Sairy AIMS so smart, we reckoned
Schoolin' would make her smarter.
For five long years she went to college,
And stuffed her pretty head,
Ill now she knows more than the parson,
But yet she can't make bread.
When she came home, says l, We'll see now
What eddication is
For / catched cold one day a churnin'
And took the rheumatic
".
She fixed her hair in what she told US
Was McCarty roll,
And went to mixin up her bread dough
In my best butter bowl
She made it, and she said she baked it,
And sat down and sriad
And for a while didn't care much
Whether lived or died.
While 'zekel, up and down the garden,
A rarin' and pitehin',
Was swearin' at the college teachers,
Cause they'd forgot the kitchen.
He wished there was no 'ology. or
Any sick foreign stuff,
If graduates made bread like leather,
Only more sour and tough.
VI
Our Sairy's no good in the kitchen,
But then she's awful smart,
She keeps the old pianner hummin',
Raves over works OF art;
Reads French, and paints, and sings, but 'ZekeI
Says he would give his head,
II she'd forget that tom-fool nonsense,
And learn to make good bread.
Harry 4 Benson, in Teras SijTiEgs.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
An Outdoor Relic.

Some styles of beauty vary with their
surroundings, as is shown by a writer in
the New York Nail and Express,
1t often happens that belle of the
parlor Is not belle on the beach, and
that a girl that gets small attention in
doors is admired outdoors A group on
the sand at Long Branch was composed
Of dozen men and one girl, who was
being talked 10 by all of them, and one
who was surely neat, comely figure in
a modest bathing suit. recalled her as
having seemed of no account at all in the
hotel on the previous evening What
makes the difference in herln I asked of
an expert. "The reason is that she bears
the wetting and the sunshine" was the
reply. "She has no brillianey of COM
plexion nor beauty of features, and in
the shade she can't bear competition with
more luxuriously-endowed creatures. but
out here in the glare her freckled face
looks clean and bright, her drenched hair
IS becoming to her small features, and
perfect naturalness gives to her a charm. -
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30
Alligators.

This IS the way boy wrote about
them: Alligators are found in the rivers
of Florida. l never found any there, be-
cause l am a poor hand at finding things
And if lost an alligator wouldn't Z
whether | found it again or not. Iwotid
rather pay him bigger wages and let him
find himself and do his own washing.
The alligator's hide is very tough. so
are the places where alligators hide.
Boots are made of this hide, which
makes me think of little story: A boy,
who had no covering for his feet except
an old pair of CATERS, went to hunt an
alligator one dav. so as to get his hide
for to make a new pair, but the creature
swallowed him, CATERS and all, which
was alligator he wanted.-Sytihgs.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30
A swindled MiIIionaire

Mr.. Moneybags, who has recently ac-
quired fortune-''It's shame and a
disgrace the way everybody conspires to
rob a rich man."
Friend-"What's the matter now?'
well, you sec | had little party at
my mansion last night"
80 Isaw by the papers"
And to amuse my guests l ordered
some music"
"Yes, I heard you ordered a quar-
tctte.a
Just so, and burst my buttons if four
singers didn't crowd into the room and
sing and l had to pay all four of them,
and mind you only ordered one solitary
quartette. That's the way I'm swindled
every day of my life and am tired of it .
-Siftinqs.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30
The Advance Of CiyiIizatiou.

The closing of the great cattle trail in
the Southwest is the clearest evidence yet
given Of the rapid advance in civilization
in that region of country. The trail
grew narrower year after year as settlers
came in and took up the unoccupied land,
until last season it WAS only three miles
wide, barely sufficient to give scant
sustenancc to cattle on their way to mar
ket. Now, it is announced that the cat
tie men have been compelled TO abandon
it altogether, and that, henceforth. Texas
cattle will be consumed by Texans. or
shipped from their ports direct to Europe.
- Baltimore american.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30

ns.zz . saane. tender Foioe, saft falling
ThrogEh III storm.
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nailling.
ID BREATHING NuEn
~ rires sonsaa. q sunny upiands lying
Ia Ieans heyond;
ihh tes1er soioe. unto my voice replying,
saae answer fond;
eazneii1es iEde-l, IL erazh Of armies meet
iaE.
Afuse the gale:
filii over All tliaf sweet s0ins kept repeating.
Il shall nof faa.
-Hs,TeT's Hagaziae.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
He Popped-No Occasion to BE
Afraid-Too Late-A Swim
died Millionaire-Anoth
Wrecked Life. etc.

She-'T saw a funny thing in the pa
per 1t says that somewhere out West
the weather is so hot that Trainer who
went into his corn field found that all
the corn had popped 1t must be awfully
nice 10 have such weather
He" Why, what are you talking
about Think how you'd suffer-
She-''Yes, might suffer. But then,
perhaps, other things besides the corn
might pop"
He popped.-Boston Transcript.
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Too Late.

A couple of young ladies, bosom
friends: my dearest Olga, l could not
rest until had come aud made an effort
to dispel the gloomy thoughts which, to
judge from your letter yesterday, threat
ened to develop into suicidal mania.
IT'S true Alfred has Tilted you-the
wretch Still, try 10 act like sensisie
girl and look out for another engage
ment.n
.'YSur advice comes too late, darling. +"
Good graciousl Olga, you surely
haven't taken poisonl"
well, n-n-no; the fact is II became
engaged again yesterday.
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No Occasion 70 be Afraid.

No Occasion to be Afraid.
"Why don't you propose to her, Joe7''
''Weil, I'm half afraid.
''Shs loves you, don't sheln
"Oh, awfully.n
you agree with her father in politicsl''
''Yes. u
"And with her brother as to who is
the best pitcherl"
Eyes. y
"Then blow me if 1 can see what you're
afraid of. n-Hdrper's Bdsar.
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Extract from letter from A. G. Smith


Extract from 4 letter from A. G. Smith
to his sister:
you will be panied to learn that
found the Mollie Blank that | told you
about little fool. / couldn't stand her
after two weeks acquaintance. You
would not have like her, know. Ihave
become smitten with true and noble
little woman, Miss Josie --, who is in
every respect the antithesis Of that
coquet.e. She will make a lovely little
wife-and she il quite as wealthy. am
happy this time, for / know She loves
me-
v.
Brief note from A. C. Smith to hi.
sister:
MY Dearest Sister Strike father for
$3.50 for me to get home with. Your al.
fectionate brother ~ Chiedgc Tribune.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-09-30

The gain il flock of sheep may be
called wetheF profit
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-01
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IMPORTANCE OF SUGAR.

Tho Prehistoric Way OF Obtnining the
Saccharine Qualities OF Food.
Sugar is one of the most important Of
foods. When it does not exist rs such
it has to be manufactured in the body
out of starch. Thus when primeval
man discovered grains that could serve
as food, such as wheat, oats, Indian
corn, rice and the like, he doubtless
ground the grains slowly between the
teeth. This broke up the grain 30 that
saliva could act upon the starch. But
only small portion of the starch
granules would be thus broken, and
the saliva, acting upon them, gave but
little sugar. In the stomach the cover
ing of the starch grains was dissolved
off, and the secretion Of the pancreas.
sim liar to saliva in this regard,
converted it into sugar. As such it
could be taken up into the blood and
carried on to the liver, where it was
stored up in the shape Of "animal
starch" until needed, and sent into the
blood again as sugar into which it was
reconvertcd as the system needed it.
This was the old-fashioncd, prehistoric
way of obtaining the sugar from the
ANuh COhthiub 1Icc
sugar, as does the juice Of many fruits
and plants, and the wild honey-bee
came also to the wild mans aid to less
en- the work of his jaws and pancreas.
The whole catalogue of nut-bearing
trees, the seeds of all fruits and of all
the grasses furnished him with starch
for his internal sugar factory. The
grinding of grain between stones
worked by hand, and finally by
water or steam, has finally re-
moved almost all labor from the teeth
in the way of preparing the different
grains for the action of the sugar-mak-
ing digestive juices. The invention of
cooking was still greater progress in
the way of saving work. The action of
heat is to burst the capsule in which
each little grain of starch is inclosed,
thus allowing the saliva to gain access
to the interior of each particle, hasten
ing the change into sugar. Not only
this, but the heat does considerable of
this changing in the absence of all di-
gestive juices. For this reason toast is
much more easily digested than bread
that has not been exposed to such treat
ment, and popcorn is more agreeable
to the weakened stomach than Boston
brown bread or hasty pudding.-&.
Louis Globc-Democrat.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-01

when he first came to vs. lie would
bring his five or ton cents every Satur-
day. laughing.
"I'm saving up to have home OF
my own when I'm grown up' he would
say.
"IIe had neither father nor mother.
nor any kinsfolk, and don't know
what was the boys idea Of home Of
his own. He was very happy here--a
sort of ruler among the other boys.
Yet he went on saving, and always for
that purpose. He was never strong
boy, and when he was sixteen heavy
cold he took went to his lungs. It only
needed week or two to make an end
Of his poor little body. One day he
said to me, just after the clergyman
had been with him: That money I've
saved--it will be enough to pny the
doctor and buy coffin for me-.
But, Joc,' said, how about the
home of your ownp'
"Hc did not answer mo at first, and
then he smiled, saying: That's all
right!' and he held my hand tight
I'll have II. That's all right'
"The next day it was all over. We
took Joe's money and paid the doctor
and bought him coffin. Itdidn't need
big one. The boys dubbed together.
giving ten cents each, and bought q
lovely pillow of white roses, with Our
Joe,' on it. Every boy got tag of
black on his arm to 60 to the funeral.
He had his own home then, sir. But
wherever he was, / think the roses
must have pleased him."
She fell behind rs we passed on, and
busted little Joe's chair with her apron,
setting it reverently apart into quiet
corner.-Y Youths Communion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-01
NATURES BEAUTIES.
On the Rio di SOmno, Brazil. at the Dawn
of Morning.

On the Rio di SOmnO. Brazil, at the Dawn
of Morning.
The soft tones of the dawn of fine
morning fell alike upon field and flood
and tinged all creation with its rosy
hues. The ricf-colored banks glowed
with the warm light that made the
dripping leaves of forest, the ferns and
flowers of the shore, all flash and spar
kle like jewels. On the river, here and
there, patches of rising vapor partly
obscured its sheets of cleaning gold,
until q gentle breeze carried away the
mist in the faiatcst of clouds. The fish
splashed in the misty waters;
gay blue-bronze king-fishers darted
from their perches on the bleached
skeleton trunks Of stranded snags;
while herons skinned the waters with
wide outstretched wing; clouds of
noisy, chattering parroquets flew by,
numerous small birds twittercd and
chirruped, and in the woods the roar of
gudribas, or bowling monkeys, echoed
and re-echoed from cliff to cliff of the
banks. 1t was picture that even in
the absence of personal comfort one
could gaze upon with delight, and all
nature seemed to welcome the rosy
dawn and pure, fresh air after the bois-
ferrous, darksome night. t.--James W.
Wells,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-01
THE BAD SPARROW.
A Massachu setts Farmer Accuses Him of
Destroying Our Native Birds.

A Massachu setts Farmer Accuses Him of
Destroying Our Native Birds.
An Easthampton farmer who owns
large meadow on Manhan river tells
me that the birds which used to fire.
quont that region in summer are very
much less numerous than formerly,
Last summer he saw only single bob
Olink where hundreds sang their sharp,
shrill songs years ago. 1t is quite sell
dom of late years that he has seen the
''cow" black-bird, or the bluejay in his
meadows, He attributes their disap-
pearancc to the English sparrow, that
yoraciOus little fellow, which has come
in such numbers and infests every
nook and field, though he is
more OF IL town bird
than our summer songsters. My most
priced recollections of early country
life are of the merry, saucy bobolink,
and should regret his absence from
our fields and meadows. 1t seems to
be habit to lay all the trouble that
comes to our native birds to the spar
row. Yet have been unable to satisfy
myself that he Is really such bad bird
| as he has the credit Of being. He GER
tainly has the merit of staying with us
through the year, without regard Ia
temperature, while our summer
songsters leave us before winter comes,
for u moro congenial atmosphere =.
Cor. Springfield Mass. Union.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-01
Traps for Cockroaches.

Put little molasses in the bottom OF
common tin basin, and piece of board
for the insects to walk up on, when
they will slide down the slippery sides
of the basin in their eargerness to get
at the sweet. They will be unable to
crawl up and get out of the sides of the
basin, and they can then be destroyed
by cmptying them into the fire. II you
have u sufficient quantity of molasses,
they will smother in 1t. Or take
quart bowl of glazed ware, and
IL deep saucer from which the center
has been cracked out Place this bro
ken saucer on the bowl and fill the
edges with u little putty. When the
putty hardens, you will have capital
cock-roach trap. You will be obliged
to set sticks against the sides of the
bowl for them to enter it, and of course
put molasses in the bowl Cucumber
parings scattered about the haunts of
the reaches or washing the paint with
alum water will drive away the pests.
GOOD Housekeeping.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-01

Of Wales. to MI the modern improve
ments; but tcrrapin, like beauty, IL
adorned the most when adorned the
least, and IL should always be served
very hot. The true way to enjoy terra
pin is not to bury it amid the ruins of n
multifarious bill of fare, but to give 1t
the whole field and plenty of favor.
With all his torpidity, the terrapin Is
nm elusive creature, and adr0itness COM
bincd with experience is needed to catch
him. His great weakness is his fcmin-
inc trait-curiosity. All the tcrrapin
hunters know this. and they profit by
it. They will anchor their low-gun-
ncled skifls in - quiet nook. wait for
few minutes in silence, and then rap
sharply on the side of the boat. II %
tcrrapin happens to be in the neighbor-
hood he will Invariably come to the sur
face to see what the noise is about, and
as soon as he shows himself he is ele-
waited into the open air by skillfully
handled hand-net. Small iron dredgcs
are used frequently to drag the places
where the terrapin are supposed to be.
A favorite method is to shut in feed
ing ground with seine heavily loaded
ut the bottom, and then to take three
prongcd stick, something on the order
of Neptune's trident, except that the
prongs are placed tliang,llarly, and
proceed to work. The expert does this
by prodding the stick into the mud un-
til he feels something move, and then
he reaches down and hauls forth u
diamond-back. Often, too. oystermen
haul up terrapin in their dredges.
Terrapin-falming is not the success
that it might be. There are several
farms in Maryland, but they are not
carried on extensively. One in Calvert
County is the largest. 1t consists of n
small salt water lake. Board fences
surround it to keep out the muskrats
and foxes, both enemies of the tcrrapin.
The hatcheries consist of boards partly
filled with sand. and are so arranged
that when the females enter they can
not get out until taken out. The young
terrapin are left in the nursery for ten
months or year. The curiosity rem
ders possible the training of the terra
pin so that they respond when called at
feeding time. They multiply rapidly.
The best terrapin for eating purposes
should measure six inches, and should
be freshly caught. The very large ter
rapin are coarse as well as expensive
Baltimore Cor. N. Y. Times